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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Lessons Learned Project would like to thank all those who made it possible to
bring to fruition one of the most important outputs of the Project – this volume of case
studies that documents rights-based approaches to development from developmental
programmes and civil society experiences culled from across the Asia-Pacific Region.
A special note of thanks goes to the Lessons Learned Project Advisory Group
Members - Wan-Hea Lee (OHCHR), Mac Darrow (OHCHR), Richard Bridle
(UNICEF), Joachim Theis (UNICEF), Sanaka Samarasinha (UNDP), Olof Sandkull
(UNESCO), Kristina Hedlund Thulin (Sida) and Mikael Bostrom (Sida) - for
believing in the Project and for their contributions and valuable inputs at various
stages of the Project till date.
The Project would like to acknowledge the support of the Asia Regional Governance
Programme of the UNDP Regional Center in Bangkok in publishing this volume of
case studies as well for supporting the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation that will
bring together leading human rights NGO representatives, grassroots practitioners,
academics, interested donors, UN agencies and independent advocates from countries
in the Asia-Pacific region as well as key focal points from UNDP and OHCHR offices
in Geneva and New York to Bangkok in September 2005 to discuss the case studies
and the lessons learned therein and how these can be culled, applied and used for
future rights-based programming.
The Project would also like to thank all those who provided invaluable support and
contributed while in the process of documenting and writing the case studies and they
have been individually acknowledged in each of the case studies documented and
included in this volume.
From January to June 2005 - as a part of the Project activities - the Lessons Learned
Project held workshops and consultations in most of the countries where the case
studies have been documented. Several people at the country-level deserve mention
for making these workshops and consultations happen: they include Monjurul Kabir
and Larry Miramis from UNDP Bangladesh; Imrana Jalal (and the entire Regional
Rights Resource Team) from UNDP Fiji; Pradeep Sharma and Marie Louise Muff
from UNDP India; Ewa Wojkowska and Chris Morris from UNDP Indonesia; Olivia
Yambi, Abdulai Kaikai and Bandith Leuanvilay from UNICEF Laos and Waldemar
Pickardt (formerly with UNICEF Laos and now based in UNICEF Myanmar);
Shantam Khadka and Sharad Neupane from UNDP Nepal; Emmanuel Buendia from
UNDP Philippines; Subinay Nandy and Jordan Ryan from UNDP Vietnam; and,
Christian Salazar Volkmann from UNICEF Vietnam.
For those who provided support at various phases of the Lessons Learned Project, the
Project would like to acknowledge Arusha Stanislaus (UNDP), Yanine Poc
(OHCHR), Maria Louisa Silva (OHCHR), Thord Palmlund (UNDP), Rio Hadad
(OHCHR), Chandra Roy (UNDP), Helen Leake (UNDP), Susan Appleyard, Mahesh
Patel (UNICEF), R Sudarshan (UNDP) and Emilia Mugnai (UNDP).
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